June 22, 2016

This workshop is for consultants, team and project leaders, managers, facilitators, and trainers experienced in facilitation who want to use graphic displays to engage team members and meeting participants, capture ideas, focus their group's work, and improve implementation.

HighlightsPractice public listening, lettering, and core drawing skills of graphic recordingGain hands-on practice recording with blank paper, using the seven archetypal visual formats (Group Graphics® Keyboard) to focus a group's conversationLearn a starter repertoire of graphic icons for graphic recordingUse the Four Flows of facilitation—attention, energy, information and operations—to gain insight about your own facilitation practice and your clients' needs.

Join us for this online seminar-style workshop and learn how to facilitate successful collaborative work at a distance. We will explore why collaborative work that is not co-located is so challenging, and how you can tame the challenges. We'll engage in discussion and practice, with practical learnings that you can put to use immediately.

A three-day, hands-on immersion in the essential practices and visual tools to create and sustain high-performing teams. This is a certification workshop.

Explore the Drexler/Sibbet/Forrester Team Performance™ System, a framework for creating and sustaining high performing teams. Learn about predictable stages of team development and issues that inhibit team performance at each stage. Gain fluency with using the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model® to diagnose and address team issues and opportunities. Learn team leader best practices, both face-to-face and virtually

Strategic Visioning™, The Grove’s flagship visual planning system, brings together the best thinking of the whole organization using visually-supported strategic analysis, creative visioning work, focused action planning, and organization-communications design. Hindsight is combined with foresight to create insight and action in the present, using a process that values and includes multiple perspectives. While preserving the best practices of traditional planning, Strategic Visioning adds the engagement

Hands-on Intensive is for facilitators and consultants seeking to deepen their skills in designing and leading organization change and social change processes. Participants are invited to bring a process consultation challenge to the workshop. They will emerge with a process design and knowledge of a range of proven interventions that will lead to successful change. “This is one of the best Grove workshops I've been to,” a senior consultant attendee stated.

April 23, 2015

Pictures are our best tool for leadership, sales, training, communications, and problem-solving. Over the past 7 years, Dan's personally trained thousands of professionals like you to become master visual-thinkers. Now he'd like to invite you to join him in San Francisco for his full two-day training conference. Discover for yourself the problem-solving power of your own visual mind. This is your chance to experience the same training he's delivered at Microsoft, Google, Boeing, Gap, Siemens, Philips, the United States Senate, and the White House.

In this 1 and 1/2 day visual workshop you will learn to better connect with the people you serve, add tools to your professional toolkit, and differentiate yourself and your service.

This workshop is for HR professionals, project leaders, consultants, managers, trainers, visual thinkers, and innovators who want to learn to be better leaders and move beyond words and the tyranny of the bullet point list.

January 23, 2014

Is the employee who DOODLES at office meetings a goof-off who's neglecting his or her responsibilities? Or is he or she actually exercising something that could be called "Doodle Diligence"? A question this morning for our Lee Cowan:

How many of us, when we let our minds drift, find that our pencils drift right along with it?

To the doodler, the canvas can be anything -- a napkin, a margin, a soon-to-be-discarded envelope.